There Is Something "Fishy" Going On With James Bond's New DB10

"Justin T. Westbrook" (justintylerwestbrook) 12/08/2014 at 10:10 • Filed to: James Bond, DB10, Aston Martin, DB5, SPECTRE, Spectre 007, 007, Skyfall, Daniel Craig, film, movies, Bond movies, Fishy

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I'm sure only a few of you noticed !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! 's recent attempts at drilling every known photo and fact about the new Aston Martin DB10 into all of your heads, but if you actually have somehow managed to come across one of their articles, you'll probably want to read this, too.

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What you will need to know:

Spectre may actually be SPECTRE , I'll explain

SPECTRE is the 24th James Bond film, currently in production

SPECTRE is pronounced [spek-ter]

Sam Mendes is the director of SPECTRE

An acronym as a title can be confusing, I'll explain

Have you heard that James Bond will drive an all new DB10?

Considering my pitch for posting permissions on Oppositelock ( thanks, BTW ) was based around my encyclopedic knowledge of everything James Bond ( and my ability to use Google for the rest ), it has been an exciting couple of months for me. Most notable was that one time !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that Aston Martin would unveil their DB10 in SPECTRE . I'm under the impression the title of the film is SPECTRE , not Spectre , as SPECTRE from the earlier films (all hail the era and reign of Sir Sean Connery ) was actually an acronym for SP ecial E xecutive for C ounter-intelligence, T errorism, R evenge and E xtortion. The organization vanished from the films after 1971 due to a few creative claims lawsuits between writers that spanned over four decades. The Bond production crew couldn't use the organization or their main baddie, Blofeld , anymore. That's what led to the big open door that Mike Myers eventually shagged into with his Austin Powers parodies of the Bond films. Well Skyfall director Sam Mendes is back, the rights to Blofeld and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are back , and Aston Martin is back for 2015's SPECTRE , baby. Following below, I'll spell out exactly what makes all this so "fishy":

1. In an article following the horridly boring and awkward press release/conference thingy held on December 4th announced Bond 24 would be SPECTRE and revealed the new DB10 to the World, Sam Mendes went into full obscure teasing mode. You can see the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! here, but I'm literally about to just highlight the relevant text immediately:

Finally, Mendes also gave us a teasing comment on (one of) Bond's new cars: an Aston Martin DB10.

"I would say that [the new car] it doesn't behave in the way perhaps that even Bond thinks it might".

I guess it is time to break out all of the "OMG GADGETS ARE BACK, WUT" comments, because yes, they're most likely back. And on a brand new Aston Martin. Of course there are no details or possibilities as to what exactly will make the car misbehave via gadgetry. Oh wait, yes there are.

2. Bond veteran Stunt Coordinator Gary Powell, in an extremely casual !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! back in July, made the comment that

"..if Skyfall was Sam Mendes' way of getting his feet wet in the Bond franchise, in [SPECTRE] he's jumping in the deep end ."

He said that looking straight into the lens of the camera, almost winking. Gary Powell has met directly with the DB10 design team at the Aston Martin Headquarters multiple times, as confirmed by his Instagram account, and was likely the key figure in helping to design the car for the new Bond film. Now at the moment his comments may just seem like a figure of speech, but when you factor in the next few facts it will seem a little too coincidental.

3. The DB10 concept (is it a concept?), or at least the model unveiled at the SPECTRE press event, oddly doesn't present a hood cutaway line. While that's normal for concept cars, it is not normal on traditional production models (which the DB10 won't have). The bodywork flows in one complete form of metal from the bottom of the windscreen and curves down into the lower fascia, with no cut across the nose of the car or down the side until you reach the front on the door. The car is based on a front-mounted-engine Aston Martin of some sort, so why would there be no traditional access to the engine? It's almost as if they have sealed the entire engine compartment for some reason. The lines suggest it may be sealed to possibly make the bodywork seem convincingly waterproof , perhaps? (I'm not exactly convinced there is a hinge that can lift the entire forward body of the car up. It could be possible, though.)

Pictured: no hood panel!

It has been confirmed that Aston will be providing ten models and/or copies of the car specifically for production of the film. Ten ? They only needed seven Aston Martin DBS models in 2008's Quantum of Solace , which featured the car !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in the first three minutes. So why would the new film require even more? Perhaps multiple variations of the car need to be made? For The Spy Who Loved Me , they built an entire other model designed to appear submersible (the car didn't actually transform). Could it be that the car is possibly designed to look seamless sealed... for specific stunt work requested to the design team in one of those meetings between Gary Powell and Aston Martin.... having something to do with them jumping into the deep end? Too bad there isn't any news of any car chases near a body of water featuring in the film...

4. There will be a car chase near the River Tiber in Rome, Italy featuring the Aston Martin DB10:

Rome will host three key action scenes for the new movie, including night-time chases, with one car ending up in the River Tiber , according to Italian news agency ANSA.

To pull it all in, so far we have a comment by Sam Mendes that the car should not be taken at face value, and we can assume it will have some Q-branch equipped gadgetry on board that may even surprise Bond himself. We have a possible play on words by the man who helped design the new DB10 specifically for the stunts of the film. We have a car with a possibly sealed off engine compartment, and we have confirmation that there will be a car chase ending with somebody's ride going for a swim. I'm not saying SPECTRE will be featuring the second coming of the Lotus Esprit submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me , but

5. The opening montage for SPECTRE 's press announcement was to Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon, which was the title song for 1977's Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me (that's the one with the submarine Lotus):

Keep in mind they brought back Goldfinger 's 1965 Aston Martin DB5 (with some minor discrepancies) equipped with all the same old gadgets in 2012's Skyfall , which had an almost identical crew to the one now filming SPECTRE . I'll leave the Skyfall DB5 for another article, seeing as the series rebooted with Casino Royale and Q-branch was only just introduced in the film before Bond set off in a random fifty year old car loaded with machine guns and an ejector seat. It was a little out of place. I fear an underwater DB10 might be, too.

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So what do you all think? Am I grasping at martinis or is there some plausible weight to all my speculations? Would you want to see them redo the Lotus submarine with the new Aston? Or would you rather have something a little more original?

For full disclosure, I'm going to go ahead and say it may 'hover' in some type of way, just because I really want to be right about this. The 'it may even surprise James Bond' aspect behind whatever is coming is the interesting bit. Also, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

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Justin Westbrook is a 20-year-old General Manager of a Jimmy John's sub shop in North Carolina, and spends his spare time watching James Bond movies, trying to be serious about going to college, and participating in " !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! "

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Brian Silvestro > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 10:13

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BATC42 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 10:19

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I think that I would have rather seen 007 driving Vanquish rather than a rebodied V8 Vantage, that doesn't even look as classy as an Aston should. It just looks like a random, overpriced, sports car.

Justin T. Westbrook > Brian Silvestro 12/08/2014 at 10:30

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Me right now:

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 10:47

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I'd say it sounds like you are onto something.

heliochrome85 > Brian Silvestro 12/08/2014 at 11:19

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we do not exist.

Brian Silvestro > heliochrome85 12/08/2014 at 11:20

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I DON'T BELIEVE YOU

Bluecold > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:25

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This gap makes me believe the entire hood hinges forward like the jaaag E type.

Jonathan Harper > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:27

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Am I grasping at martinis...

Or in the case of Daniel Craig...Heinekens. Any insight into what he'll drink in SPECTRE? You seem to be the only person who could possibly have an educated guess about this.

KillerBee > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:31

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Someone remind Q that this part is gonna need waterproofing, too.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Jonathan Harper 12/08/2014 at 11:32

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Mash_Tun > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:33

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Uuuughghhhh > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:33

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I am a little confused why everyone is jumping to conclusions that Blofeld will be in Bond 24. Maybe they are rebooting to Bond 1 with Dr. No, which was a member of Spectre and was the first audience introduction to the Spectre group. I know Waltz looks great bald (a la Zero Point Theorem), but he also would make a convincing looking Dr. No.

Captain_Spadaro > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:36

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We'll see...

Dean Beyer > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:39

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I hope not. I really hope not.

calumnium > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:41

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not sure how relevant but there is a seem there

Big Block I-4 > Brian Silvestro 12/08/2014 at 11:43

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LeadfootYT > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:46

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Love the articles Justin! This is a great read, and far more convincing than I suspected going into it.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Bluecold 12/08/2014 at 11:50

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That's what I was thinking after I saw the press release and said photos. That tacky looking C5 Corvette stick on strip on the fender would make a decent handle.

venivelovici > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:52

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The case against, from Skyfall:

Q, to Bond, in the National Gallery:

"What did you expect, an exploding pen? We don't really go for that anymore."

Jimmy Joe Meeker > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:52

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SPECTRE , COBRA, THRUSH, KAOS, GALACTOR, ISIS, MAD....

gingabloke > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 11:55

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Although in Skyfall 'new Q' dismissed the notion of fancy gadgets as old fashioned when he presented Bond with his gun and tracker.

chucchinchilla > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:03

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To the hood point. Maybe it opens like an E-Type Jag?

vc-10 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:03

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I think I'm having a crisis.

Rust-y > Brian Silvestro 12/08/2014 at 12:09

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Conspiracy looks tired

Brian Silvestro > Rust-y 12/08/2014 at 12:10

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There's been a lot on his mind lately

Hermann > KillerBee 12/08/2014 at 12:11

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Maybe this is where the water is sucked in for the jet?

Or the grille closes like window blinds.

Sinanigans > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:21

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I hope Aston isn't going to use this design in their upcoming models. It just doesn't look very elegant.

MannyBones > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:26

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as SPECTRE from the earlier films

Not to mention the teaser poster is a riff on SPECTRE's old symbol.

FromCanadaWithLove > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:52

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This seems pretty compelling.

On the other hand, did you catch all of the OHMSS references? The shot-glass in the logo is the biggest giveaway, along with We Have All The Time In The World at the beginning of the conference. Everyone (including me) seems to think Waltz is going to play Blofeld, and Telly Savalas' portrayal seems the most adaptable for 2015. There's something there, for sure.

Saracen > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:56

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it's definitely SPECTRE.

Maxaxle > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 12:58

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Pictured: One or zero waterlogged Aston Martins, depending on whether the film crew bothered to retrieve the car.

AMGFTMFW > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 13:16

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The only real Spectre. :)

TomMetcalf > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 13:18

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So which Bond car is your favorite?

Racescort666 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 13:39

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Great read. I am a huge James Bond fan and I have really enjoyed the last few movies. The speculation on what the gadgets will be is awesome but I think the gadgets are really what sets the movies apart from the books (I went there, sorry.)

Teddy M. Scott > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 13:44

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My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do,

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G/O Sucks > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 13:54

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Excellent catches — I love the Bond flicks since the reboots but a "sub" might be a bit far.

Also, Justin needs to quit his day job slinging sandwiches and be a writer. Seriously, I dig these posts.

monkeyracing > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 13:56

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Dear God, please don't let them return to the horrible, horrible days of the Roger Moore films. They were awful and involved a lot of old men attempting to be funny, but ended up creating a gigantic black hole of suck. If this car goes under water or I hear a slide whistle, I promise you, people will die.

Justin T. Westbrook > G/O Sucks 12/08/2014 at 14:07

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Seriously, I dig you saying that <3

Justin T. Westbrook > Uuuughghhhh 12/08/2014 at 14:09

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This is a great idea in my opinion. I still am disappointed that they don't seem able to come up with original characters or ideas though.

Justin T. Westbrook > MannyBones 12/08/2014 at 14:09

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Craig era has seen some really great teasers.

Justin T. Westbrook > gingabloke 12/08/2014 at 14:10

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Although, you have the director bringing back gadgets on the DB5 and now being quoted as to saying what can only be interpreted as more gadgetry in SPECTRE.

Justin T. Westbrook > monkeyracing 12/08/2014 at 14:11

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I'd be more open to a funnier film in the vein of what Marvel has going for them, but I wish it was over original ideas and not just looking back on the franchise with these tedious allusions to previous Bond classics.

Justin T. Westbrook > venivelovici 12/08/2014 at 14:12

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I think a director at the press event saying what can only be interpreted as a return to some form of gadgetry outways a line from the previous film. Is it a bit sloppy? Yes. Do I think they'll try to play off that line in the new film? Yes, because it has the same writers. They'll try and make it work.

Justin T. Westbrook > Maxaxle 12/08/2014 at 14:14

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LIMITED EDITION DB10 FOR SALE. $200,000 US OBO. WATER DAMAGE. SALVAGEABLE. NEED BOAT + CRANE (NOT SUPPLIED BY SELLER). USED IN JOHN BLOND FILM.

Also_Ran > Brian Silvestro 12/08/2014 at 14:47

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MOOSE1111 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 14:49

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if they make this car time travel and send Craig back to the 70s i will not be happy

Ntovorni > MannyBones 12/08/2014 at 15:38

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Holy shit GREAT catch.

DCV > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 15:51

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More important question is: how the hell did that fish get inside of the car if it was supposed to be waterproof!?

venivelovici > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 15:52

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Agreed. Sam Mendes >>> Q

CaptainBoss > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 15:57

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Maxaxle > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 16:38

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This guy gets it.

HiramJahoovafatJr > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 16:40

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...clamshell hood - split line at the vent.

monkeyracing > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 17:04

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If they choose this direction, it will remind me not only of terrible 70's Bond films, (I'm thinking of the character Jaws, Paul Williams and stupid spiralling AMC car jumps in Thailand with a fat redneck in the passenger seat) but also of the last Star Trek Movie: They'd rebooted the franchise. It was an ass kicking new universe! Then, in the second film, references to original series goofiness like tribbles. Ugh.

Justin T. Westbrook > HiramJahoovafatJr 12/08/2014 at 18:51

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Perhaps. That seems to be the consensus, at least. I'll admit I felt that was my weakest argument going in. I trimmed most of my reasoning out. I think it's newsworthy though if Aston may be going clamshell hood on future designs.

LastScene86 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 19:45

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Are you the general manager of my Jimmy Johns? Because we need to talk about the scope of your delivery zone.

Justin T. Westbrook > LastScene86 12/08/2014 at 21:26

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*Said every customer, ever* I don't mean that to be rude. The general rule of thumb when they outline a delivery area is whether or not it is within 5 minutes of the store, including stop signs, intersections, and lights. They target areas with a lot of businesses, not so much the residences. Unless you live on a college campus.

LastScene86 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 21:35

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Well I was just joking. The retreat I work at is shutting down the kitchen for the winter and we fall literally quarter of a mile outside of the delivery zone haha.

Justin T. Westbrook > LastScene86 12/08/2014 at 21:37

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Considering you work at a retreat, I am most likely not your personal GM. Unless it happens to be a golf retreat. It's pretty surprising how small they draw the lines, but when you get out there with 2 or 3 deliveries (which I do, frequently) it can take up to 25-40 minutes to get just 3 done in one go. And that's 3 we consider 'in the same direction'.

LastScene86 > Justin T. Westbrook 12/08/2014 at 21:52

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Crazy, but hey...

I'll be looking out for some sort of Jimmy Johns delivery car culture post from you :)

yeeeeeeezus > Brian Silvestro 12/08/2014 at 23:39

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there is certainly alot of DB10 truthing going on in this article and I'm willing to listen to every theory, let's hope this Aston does come back in one piece

Justin T. Westbrook > LastScene86 12/09/2014 at 00:11

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Not a bad idea! I might have to put some help wanted ads on Oppo for a post like that, though.

Paul-Michael Van Hook > Justin T. Westbrook 12/09/2014 at 01:40

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I can't help but notice the front styling is very shark-like. Another clue perhaps?

4thwall > Justin T. Westbrook 12/09/2014 at 03:00

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There is no tool or gauge that could possibly measure the extreme amount of want I feel for this car.

G/O Sucks > Justin T. Westbrook 12/09/2014 at 05:32

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Good — You're worthy! This site currently has some excellent examples of good writing from people whose talent is very obvious (Demuro, Torchinsky) and terrible writing from hacks who need a good punch in the mouth (no comment). You're clearly the former.

As a now-middle-aged former 20-year-old sandwich slinger myself (Togo's - it was the 90's) it's very nice to see someone with something to say on the cusp of a real career. Keep the throttle down, dude.

Mau_Ferrusca > Justin T. Westbrook 12/19/2014 at 10:41

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>John Blond.

Love that.

Justin T. Westbrook > LastScene86 01/01/2015 at 16:23

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I've been thinking about how to approach an article on JJ's car culture for awhile. I just wanted to update you and let you know that since I am no longer employed there, I will likely be featuring a few articles on various topics. Thanks for the idea, and I hope I can deliver!